Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods, “was a monster” enabled by a system that “pervaded” the London store, a lawyer for his accusers has said. The late Harrods owner was described as a “sexual predator” who assaulted staff and threatened them over a 25-year-period, barristers representing dozens of women told a press conference in London on Friday. Dean ...

Sir Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not accept any further donations for clothing after a row over gifts, a Downing Street source has said. The prime minister has faced growing criticism after it emerged he had received more than £16,000 for work clothing and spectacles for him, and further money for his wife, ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : A Sunamganj court today sent former planning minister MA Mannan to jail in a case filed over the attack on students during the protests on August 4. Mannan was arrested by police yesterday evening from his village in Sunamganj. Sunamganj Judicial Magistrate Farhan Sadique passed the order after police produced him before the court, said Mashuk Alam, ...

Police arrested a youth from his house over raping a school girl at Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday night. The arrested man is Jahangir Miah, 25, a residen of Kamasid village under Mirzapur union in the upazila. Police said that the victim, age around 14, a ninth-grader of a local school, was raped several times in her room ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Police arrested former Planning Minister MA Mannan from his home in Sunamganj’s Shatiganj upazila yesterday evening. AFM Anwar Hossain, superintendent of Sunamganj police, said, “He [MA Mannan] is accused in a case filed with a court. After being informed that he was at his village home, police conducted a drive and arrested him.” “We will produce him ...

A Habiganj court has acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed against him in the district. Habiganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Abdul Alim passed the order on Thursday. Asaduzzaman Khan Tuhin, a former vice-president of the Habiganj district Chhatra League in 2015, filed the case following comments made by Tarique Rahman about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ...

A policeman was killed after being crushed under the wheels of a train in the Shibbari area at Dakshin Surma upazila in Sylhet district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Zahirul Haque, hailed from Madhyanagar upazila of Sunamganj. He was a constable in the South Surma Police Station. The accident occurred in the Shibbari area of South Surma ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained former Mayor of Habiganj Municipality and Organizing Secretary of the District Awami League Ataur Rahman Selim and later handed him to police. RAB-2 and RAB-9 conducted a joint operation in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka and picked up Selim on Tuesday afternoon. Dhanmondi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Anwar Hossain said on Wednesday Selim was ...

Brexit red tape on British businesses has caused goods trade between the UK and EU to slump and the problem is getting worse, a study has warned. Many smaller UK producers have given up exporting small amounts to the EU after facing more rules and regulations, a report by Aston University Business School has found. Between 2021 and 2023, the ...

Everywhere you go in the party conference centre at Brighton you keep seeing the same number – 72. That’s how many MPs the Liberal Democrats now have – and they have been celebrating that fact all week. It’s a dramatic increase on the 15 MPs they had before the election and represents a record number of seats for the party. ...